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Kim, Eje – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
This is an autobiographical account of my geographical education. As a child I explored places far different from my home in S. Korea through my readings of children's literature--Pippi Longstocking in particular. My school experiences in Seoul did little to educate me geographically. This paper describes significant transformations during my…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries, Literary Devices, Feminism
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Fortuijn, Joos Droogleever – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2011
Feminist geography teaching in universities in the Netherlands originated 30 years ago in an academic context that counteracted this new development for ideological reasons. Nowadays, the neoliberal conditions of the market have replaced the conservative ideology that prevailed 30 years ago. Feminist geography is supported as far as it returns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Feminism
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Garcia-Ramon, Maria-Dolors – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2011
Since the introduction of gender themes into university teaching in geography in Spain in 1989, significant gains have been made but challenges remain in relation to placing gender into undergraduate curricula and developing teaching resources in local languages. Geographers in Spain have to meet those challenges in the near future in order to…
Descriptors: Geography, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Geography Instruction
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Voiculescu, Sorina – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2011
The fall of communism in Central-Eastern Europe in 1989 brought major political, social, economic and cultural changes that reshaped the Romanian society as it transitioned from the totalitarian communist regime to a democratic one. The entire process of transition, eventuating in Romanian access to the European Union, brought important changes at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Leguizamon, Saturnino – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
The term "geospatial technologies" encompasses a large area of fields involving cartography, spatial analysis, geographic information system, remote sensing, global positioning systems and many others. These technologies should be expected to be available (as "natural tools") for a country with a large surface and a variety of…
Descriptors: Cartography, Geography, Information Systems, Foreign Countries
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Hall, Derek – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2004
Drawing on a wide range of secondary and primary materials as well as personal experience of Albania dating from the 1970s to the present day, this paper describes and critically evaluates current geographical and environmental education in Albania in relation to three dimensions: (1) the changing nature of the curriculum over the past 20 years;…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction